iTDi:

Error Correction

Date: Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
Time: 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Speaker: Scott Thornbury, Steven Herder, and Barbara Hoskins Sakamoto

Description:
In addition to their free, open-to-all, quarterly webinars, iTDi will also be offering monthly in-house webinars for teachers who've enrolled in one of their courses and want to interact further with mentors and others in the iTDi community. These monthly online sessions are designed to focus on one topic and allow teachers to go deeper in sharing experiences, exploring ideas and defining teacher beliefs. This session on "Error Correction" features iTDi directors Scott Thornbury, Steven Herder, and Barbara Hoskins Sakamoto. The webinar is free, but requires registration. Seating is limited.

Part 1: 10-minute talks

Why correct ESL errors in an EFL class?Steven Herder

Does error correction really work?Scott Thornbury

Embrace mistakes!Barbara Hoskins Sakamoto

Part 2: Panel discussion

Webinar participants are invited to ask questions and share comments in a wide-ranging, free-flowing discussion about error correction for various contexts and among different levels of language learners.

ELT means English Language Teaching. The ELT Calendar contains information about conferences, conventions, workshops, presentations and other events of professional interest to teachers of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) in Japan, and the research communities of SLA (Second Language Acquisition), TESOL (Teaching English as a Second or Other Language), TEFL (Teaching English as a Foriegn Language) and others relevant to language learning and teaching English in Japan.